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by John Strand | Editorial | July 11th, 2018
…One of three Red State Democratic U.S. Senators up for reelection this November, North Dakota’s Heidi Heitkamp is no doubt in the national spotlight.That President Trump has nominated Judge Brett Kavanaugh, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, to be that next U.S. Supreme Court Justice will…
by HPR Contributor | Culture | July 11th, 2018
…Jan Syversonstandupjan@gmail.comThree hundred miles northwest of Fargo, ND I find myself at the back of a small bar in a small town surrounded by nothing but snowy fields and darkness. I take a drag of a cigarette and go through my set. It’s freezing outside, but that’s my thing, I…
by Chuck Solly | Culture | July 11th, 2018
…It is not expensive to keep various dust removers near your computer to keep the amount of dust to a minimum. When I run out of words for this column, I pick up my duster and clean my equipment as therapy for writer’s block. Writer or not, you should set…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | July 11th, 2018
…Can It Happen Here?So it has finally come to this. From the normal of a century to the abnormal of the last 30 months, we are at each other’s throats. We represent either the “looney left” or the “righteous right.” Instead of negotiating with each other for the common good,…
by HPR Contributor | Last Word | July 11th, 2018
…By Gary Olsonolsong@moravian.edu Recognition of the inherent dignity and the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world.- The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human RightsGood on everyone who rallied in such large numbers on behalf of…
by Sabrina Hornung | Culture | July 11th, 2018
…“This is their encounter with these people and this may be all that’s known about them,” Dr. Joseph Stuart, associate of history at the University of Mary in Bismarck, said. “These may be the only words that are preserved from this person. The students really respond well to that and…
by Jim Fuglie | Last Word | July 11th, 2018
…“Davis Refinery permit approved.”That was the headline in the paper last week, telling us that the North Dakota Department of Health has approved an air quality permit and issued a permit to construct an oil refinery three miles from Theodore Roosevelt National park. Yikes! What kind of monsters would want…
by C.S. Hagen | News | July 3rd, 2018
…FARGO– Three days before America’s 242nd birthday, a Second Civil War was forecasted, although technically, the prediction would have been the nation’s second-second civil war, as the first time the conspiracy was weaponized, the war never started.Neither did the war between right and left, or fascists and ANTIFA, or Republican…
by C.S. Hagen | News | July 1st, 2018
…FARGO – President Donald Trump came to North Dakota this week to promote current Congressman Kevin Cramer’s run for U.S. Senate, but dedicated less than three minutes of his speech to Cramer, preferring to speak for more than 70 minutes on his own policies.Here is a collection of President Trump’s…
by C.S. Hagen | News | June 30th, 2018
…FARGO – Out of 750 protests against President Donald Trump’s immigration polices across the nation Saturday, three of them occurred in North Dakota: Fargo, Grand Forks, and Antler, population 27.President Trump’s policy has ripped more than 2,300 migrant children from their parents at the southern border, and now after a court…